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A review by ehays84
Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton
4.0
Yeah for another Chesterton read. The strength of each story was somewhat up and down, but you know by now that I love everything by Chesterton. This book would be a good entry point for anyone looking to read some more non-fiction style Chesterton because each story is very short and you are not signing up for a huge project with this short book.
I gleaned yet more extremely valuable pieces of wisdom about how to understand the world. Yet again, Chesterton reminds me to find joy in pleasure in the reality of the world. I should see a missed train connection not as a frustration but an adventure. I should see God's Hand in the minute details of life.
The other interesting thing to me about this book is the way that certain of the stories (all of which he originally published as a journalist in a newspaper) were clearly the motivation for him to write a longer book. The obvious example is the story about traveling to the continent so that he could see England, his home, as new and wonderful again. Chesterton views vacations primarily as helpful to us to enjoy where it is that we normally are. Wonderful. And this story clearly motivated him to write Manalive, which is still right up there for me in terms of my favorite by him.
I gleaned yet more extremely valuable pieces of wisdom about how to understand the world. Yet again, Chesterton reminds me to find joy in pleasure in the reality of the world. I should see a missed train connection not as a frustration but an adventure. I should see God's Hand in the minute details of life.
The other interesting thing to me about this book is the way that certain of the stories (all of which he originally published as a journalist in a newspaper) were clearly the motivation for him to write a longer book. The obvious example is the story about traveling to the continent so that he could see England, his home, as new and wonderful again. Chesterton views vacations primarily as helpful to us to enjoy where it is that we normally are. Wonderful. And this story clearly motivated him to write Manalive, which is still right up there for me in terms of my favorite by him.